Re: Other technologies with Perl

Depends on what you want to base your career on, let's say you want to be a web developer then I'd recommend to learn Plack, PSGI, mod_perl, memcached, Apache, and so on...

If you want to be a backend developer then I'd go focus more on IPC, threads, OOP, caching strategies, and so on...

If you want to be a Desktop App developer then I'd tell you to learn Gtk2, threads...

As you can see it all depends, of course knowing as much as you can won't hurt. Also don't overlook modern perl tricks such as Moose, Method::Signatures, DBIx::Class or even perl5i.

IMHO Java is not suited for the Web, it has a great community but all frameworks and libraries are there to hide the fact that is really difficult and hard to maintain a site built on Java

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Re^2: Other technologies with Perl by chrestomanci (Priest) on Jun 10, 2011 at 13:42 UTC
I have been looking for a new Perl job recently. (In the UK) I found that a lot of potential employers where interested that I had experience of DBIx::Class, Moose and Catalyst (in roughly that order). Outside of Perl, for front end web development jobs, they where also very interested in any JavaScript skills I might have. For back end, they wanted to know about my in depth knowledge of raw SQL that is coded directly without the help of a wrapper such as SQL::Abstract (used by DBIx::Class), and also knowledge of other languages, especially C and C++	[reply]

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Re^2: Other technologies with Perl
by chrestomanci (Priest) on Jun 10, 2011 at 13:42 UTC

I have been looking for a new Perl job recently. (In the UK)

I found that a lot of potential employers where interested that I had experience of DBIx::Class, Moose and Catalyst (in roughly that order).

Outside of Perl, for front end web development jobs, they where also very interested in any JavaScript skills I might have. For back end, they wanted to know about my in depth knowledge of raw SQL that is coded directly without the help of a wrapper such as SQL::Abstract (used by DBIx::Class), and also knowledge of other languages, especially C and C++

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